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18 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2013 04:47AM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 26 March 2013 02:44:24PM 4 points [-]

I'll check again, it wasn't in English though. It was a few years back, about a German engineer who supposedly had to devote more than a year just to the cupholder. It could have been 31,557,600 engineers who were assigned to the task for one second each, one of those two extrema.

Comment author: gjm 27 March 2013 12:50:06AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for using 365.25 rather than 365. (Though of course a working year is not a full year of 24-hour days, and the real figure should be 365.2425 or something.)

Comment author: Kawoomba 27 March 2013 10:07:10AM 0 points [-]

Yay Yahoo Answers wins again.